Life of the mind in its full glory. We're all guilty of it to some degree. Nothing is simple and direct. Always a spin to bring it into accord with the fantasy.
--- bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://slate.com/id/2122835/ > > > "On or around Jan. 17, 1986, Hubbard suffered a > catastrophic stroke on > a secluded ranch near Big Sur, Calif. A week later > he was dead. > Scientology attorneys arrived to recover his body, > which they sought to > have cremated immediately. They were blocked by a > county coroner, who, > according to Scientology critics, did an autopsy > that revealed high > levels of a psychiatric drug. That would seem like > an embarrassment > given the church's hostility to such medications > (witness Tom Cruise's > recent feud with Brooke Shields), but it didn't stop > the church from > summoning thousands of followers to the Hollywood > Palladium days after > Hubbard's death. There they were told that Hubbard > "willingly discarded > the body after it was no longer useful to him," and > that this > signified "his ultimate success: the conquest of > life that he embarked > upon half a century ago." Perhaps it would be more > accurate to say that > Hubbard's ultimate success lay in convincing > millions of people he was > something other than a nut." > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
